A.L. Steiner & A.K. Burns

Community Action Center

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Hollywood Theatre

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Community Action Center incorporates the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily inspired by 1970s porn-romance-liberation films, which served as distinct portraits of the urban inhabitants, landscapes, and the body politic of a particular time and place. Collaborators Burns and Steiner worked with artists who created infinitely complex gender and performance roles that are both real and fantastical, set to a soundtrack including Chicks on Speed, Electrelane, K8 Hardy, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Light Asylum, MEN, Kinski, and Thee Majesty (Genesis P-Orridge), and featuring original compositions by Justin Bond, Nick Hallett & Sam Greenleaf Miller, Ashland Mines & Wu Tsang, and more. Community Action Center is a unique womyn-centric composition that serves as both an ode and a hole-filler, a hedonistic and distinctly political adventure.

This screening takes place alongside of the PICA Symposium: Bodies, Identities & Alternative Economies, a weekend of performances, discussions, screenings, and lectures on the ideas and politics behind Hennessy’s in-progress TBA:12 performance Turbulence (a dance about the economy). The Symposium takes place June 21–24, 2012.

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